From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 5/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:53:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110303125317.GA23770@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303103814.GA3790@infomag.iguana.be>
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
Reflowed into 80 columns.
> 2) Is there a real need for having 500ms or 1500ms? why would 1 or 2
> seconds not be OK? (which are allready small timeouts for userspace
> anyway...)
Yes, in embedded cases. There it's much easier to have good control
over userspace such that you can meet the scheduling requirements.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 20:43 [RFC] [PATCH 5/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-02-23 21:59 ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-23 22:04 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-02-24 8:21 ` Alexander Stein
2011-03-03 10:38 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-03-03 12:53 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-03-03 16:36 ` Alexander Stein
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